Gallons

[dsgreat3]

when people talk about gallons on here are they talking in uk galons becaus in the uk most people would use liters or us gallons i wish people would say is it tht all fishkeepers use gallons for tanks and im just being a noob lol

 

[Ian H]

uhh....im in the uk and i normally use gallons not litres

i think its mostly us gallons tbh

 

[Colin_T]

I use litres because I am a modern fishy lol, ah I made a funny. sorry couldn't resist that, the rest of the world is still using an old fashioned way of measuring liquids.

I look at the person's details and see where they come from. If they are from the US then they should be using US gallons (about 3.785litres). If they are from the UK then they normally use UK gallons (about 4.5litres). I think I got that the right way for the right country.
And that is why the rest of the world should convert to litres

 

[andywg]

Many people on here from the UK do not use imperial gallons (to give them their true name) but prefer US gallons as it makes their tank bigger.

I ignore gallons/litres anyway, I find the dimensions of a tank far more useful to know than the total volume.

 

[Sweetheart]

I use US gallons

 

[K-Holed]

That's one of my little annoyances. I think life would be alot easier if everyone did one of the following. a)mentioned which galons they were working in b)used litres or (and preferably) c) give the dimentions of the tank. When you get a 20 gallon tank, are you talking about a 2 or 3 foot tank? ... it makes a big difference.

/rant over

//James

 

[OldMan47]

In the US, a 20 gallon tank is either 2 or 2 1/2 feet long depending on which style you buy. Both of the tanks actually hold less than 20 US gallons of water. As Andywg said, the size in terms of length and width are more meaningful. The good part about using the US gallon designation is that we are all talking about the same tank. If I call something a 30 long, it is a 3 foot tank that is not very tall. If I call it a 29, it is a 2 1/2 ft long tank that holds about the same amount of water but is taller. I don't think either one actually holds much more than 26 US gallons if you have no substrate. The numbers that are on new tanks don't even say gallons on the label, they are used as model numbers in the states. The only place that I know of where they actually measure things in US gallons is in the US. Both of our neighbors use a metric system of measure. They buy fuel, milk etc. in litres.